Appliance for taking measurements for garments.



PATENTED DEC 1, 1903.

H. W. HILDEE.

APPLIANCE FOR TAKING MEASUREMENTS FOR. GARMENTS.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 12, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

UNTTED STATES Patented December 1, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY \VILLIAM HILDER, OF BRIGHTON, ENGLAND.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 745,841, dated December 1, 1903.

Application filed January 12, 1903. $erialN0.138.753. (No model.)

To (6 whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY WILLIAM HIL- DER, a subject of the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at let Trafalgar street, Brighton, in the county of Sussex, England, have invented new and useful Improvements in Appliances for Taking Measurements for Garments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in appliances for taking measurements for garments, the object being to provide a definite base from which all the required dimensions can be ascertained directly or by triangulation in suchamanner that trying on is rendered quite unnecessary an d at the same time a perfect fit insured.

In carrying my invention into efiect I proceed in or in about the following manner, making reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 is a side View, Fig. 2 a front view, and Fig. 3 a plan, of my improved appliance for the above-mentioned purpose.

Upstanding from a suitable foot a 1 provide a tubular support I), in which is free to slide up and down a rod 0, suitable means, such as a tightening-screw cZ, being provided for keeping the rod 0 at the required height in the support Z). The rod 0 is somewhat inclined at its upper portion, as at e, the extremity fbeing again made Vertical. At the top of the rod 0 efis a cross-piece, one end, g, of which is preferably made shorter than the other end, 72,. To g is hinged a slotted plate 2', and to his hinged another and longer slotted plate j. To the outer ends, respectively, of Z and j are hinged the somewhatcurved arms 70 and Z, Z being preferably somewhat shorter than 70. In the slots of the plates Z and j are free to run upstanding arms on and it, each having a thumb-screw orother means for retaining the arms mand 'n, at any required position in the slotted plates 2' and j. The opposing edges of the arms on and n are curved, as at 0.

On the curved arms 7i; and Zare free to run to and fro the runners 19, having tighteningscrews q to keep them in place and also setscrews 7", with their centers in line with the top of the arms 70 and Z, from which setscrews hang freely the tape-measures s. A similar tape-measure t hangs freely from set-screws it, provided on the upright arms m and n, and having their centers level with the tops of the slotted plates i and j, which are level with the tops of It and Z.

Free to slide up and down the inclined part 2 of the rod 0 efis a slotted plate 11, having at its inner end a freely-suspended tapemeasure to, means being provided at a: for keeping the slotted plate 1; at the required height on the part c and for keeping the plate Q] with its inner end at any required distance from part 6 of the rod 0 cf.

The rod 0 cf is graduated to show inches or other units of length from the cross-piece g h downward, and the parts g 'Z in and hj Z are also divided into units of length counting outward toward the ends of the arms is and Z.

The appliance has its parts so assembled together that the arms 75 and Z and the parts to which they are hinged shall have their upper edges horizontal.

In use the appliance is stood as near as possible to the side of the person who is to be measured and the rod 0 cf raised until the cross-piece g h is under the persons armpit. The upstanding arms m and n are then brought up to the front and back of the persons arm and tightened up. The curved arms is and Z are then pressed against the persons chest and back and the runnersp placed and tightened at the center of the chest and back. The slotted plate o is then raised and pushed in according to the depression of the persons side. The appliance having been thus adjusted, the points from which are suspended the tape-measures s, t, and to form fixed data from which can be taken any dimension, direct or by triangulation.

It will be observed that the top edge of the parts g h z'j 70 Z forms a base to which all dimensions can be referred.

That I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In an appliance for taking measurements for garments the combination of a foot; a tubular support upstanding from the said foot; a partly-inclined rod free to slide up and down in the said support; means for retaining the rod in position; a slotted plate with means for adjusting it vertically or horizontally on the inclined part of the said rod; a tape from set-screws on the said arms; runners free to move on the curved arms and having means for retaining them in position thereon; and tape-measures hanging freely from setscrews on the said runners, substantially as hereinbefore described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HENRY WILLIAM HILDER.

Witnesses:

ALBERT BURGESS, EVELYN BRINDLEY. 

